Tag: flexo
What is the real cost of color management in India?
We have been ethical consultants to the print and packaging industry for over 36 years. And having printed the Munsell Fost charts at Thompson Press in 1979, we continue to talk about color management as part of our best practice and standardization advocacy and consulting practice. At first this entailed the exposure of an original film color control strip for each of the four process inks – for visually evaluating the offset plate resolution and the printed solid densities and 40 as well as 80% tint boxes measured with a hand-held densitometer. Solid overlaps of the four inks could be evaluated for trapping – the ability of an ink to split and be accepted by the previously printed ink.
Japan’s response to gravure profitability in an era of short-runs
Recently, the Japanese Society of Printing Science and Technology held a meeting to discuss new technologies aimed at helping the gravure printing industry succeed...
Water-washable flexo plate
Fujifilm has come up with an advanced new water-washable flexo plate, Flenex FW forlabel converters, who can benefit from this high quality and low...
Taiyo shows STF 340
At the IGAS 2015 exhibition in Tokyo, Taiyo revealed its new STF 340 narrow web flexo label press to a large number of very...
Hans-Georg Schepers at Heliograph Holdings
At the Heliograph Holdings stand at IGAS, we met with Hans-Georg Schepers who is the patent-holding pioneer in the use of high powered direct...
Return to Brussels
The end of September sees the next round of the European Labelexpo but what sort of
things can we expect to see there? Nessan Cleary...
Chennai’s Tridev Labels invests in a Mark Andy 2200 label press
Tridev Labels, a label printer based in Chennai, has invested in a Mark Andy 2200 machine for the production of self-adhesive labels. Tridev Labels...